Thursday 11th October saw the close of the third European Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel, Switzerland, once again strongly attended by around 1,000 developers, architects and engineers from across the globe, as well as 170 speakers and sponsors.

Abby Kearns, Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, gave an opening keynote presentation in which she outlined the most recent events in the life of this four-year-old community. The Summit heard of the key role being played by Cloud Foundry at Volkswagen, who began with no in-house application development capability two years ago, and now have 250 developers, and 2,400 Cloud Foundry instances in five regions – servicing a million customers across the 12 VW brands. Similarly Allianz, who have used the agility of Cloud Foundry to reduce application deployment times from days to minutes.